Avi Belkin

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Avi Belkin is an Israeli film director, producer and cinematographer.

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Education

Belkin studied art and film at HaMidrasha - Faculty of the Arts in Beit Berl, Israel.

Film career

In 2012, Belkin produced and directed a short documentary film, Paddle Ball, that won first place at the Haifa International Film Festival that year. In 2014, his debut feature film Winding, about the Yarkon River, [1] won the best film award. [2]

Belkin directed the documentary feature  Mike Wallace is Here that follows the life and career of American journalist Mike Wallace (2019) [3] and directed and executive produced a 6 part true-crime documentary series No One Saw a Thing (2019) that tells the story of a small violent town in Missouri. [4]

Filmography

YearTitleWork TypeGenreRole
2012Paddle ballShort FilmFeature FilmDirector
2007Elephant Graveyard [5] DocumentaryFeature FilmDirector
2014Winding.DocumentaryFeature FilmDirector
2019 No One Saw a Thing [6] [7] TV Mini SeriesSeriesDirector
2019 Mike Wallace Is Here DocumentaryFeature FilmDirectot

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References

  1. Winding
  2. Beit Berl College EXCELLENCE AND EQUALITY, Haaretz
  3. Interview: Director Avi Belkin Reminds You 'Mike Wallace Is Here'
  4. “Every Viewer Can Decide What to Believe or Not Believe, Who to Trust and What to Question”: Avi Belkin on His Sundance TV True Crime Series No One Saw a Thing
  5. "Edzard, Christine, (born 15 Feb. 1945), film director; Managing Director, Sands Film Studios, since 1975", Who's Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, retrieved 13 June 2021
  6. Maglio, Tony (27 February 2018). "SundanceTV, Blumhouse Team on New True Crime Documentary Series". The Wrap. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  7. Littleton, Cynthia (27 February 2018). "SundanceTV Orders Blumhouse TV Docu Series 'No One Saw a Thing'". Variety. Retrieved 4 March 2018.